Experience Sharing: is it outsourcing or self-built by the Internet startup team?

In the early stages of business, the team will face the problems of implementing IT projects when implementing IT projects. Are they self-built teams or outsourcing? What are their advantages and disadvantages? Here, I would like to share with you some of my years of experience in customer service and entrepreneurship. The first choice is the nature of the entrepreneurial team and the professionalism of the core staff. Technical Team: if you are a technically mature team member or the entire team is a technical team, you do not need to outsource the technology. This type of team only needs to consider outsourcing design. Semi-Technical and semi-marketing teams: the team has technical personnel, but the technical strength or division of work decides not to invest too much time in development. You can consider completely outsourcing and purchasing the basic part of secondary development. Marketing team: the marketing team is based on the business model and existing resources, and wants to implement their own ideas in the e-commerce model. When a team starts a business, self-built or outsourcing is a very team problem. Advantages of self-built teams: 1. timeliness of communication because the idea of the business model is not perfect at the early stage of the business, and it needs to be constantly adjusted and corrected during the process, so it is necessary to communicate with the technical team in real time regarding the feasibility and construction, real-time face-to-face communication helps quick implementation in the early stage of the project. 2. In terms of implementation details, you can implement them according to the management team's ideas. When you need to adjust the business model, you can immediately communicate it to the technical team for implementation. Disadvantages of self-built teams: 1. the cost of personnel is relatively high for professional Internet technicians with certain qualifications. For general e-commerce startups, if they are fully developed independently, 2 ~ 4 people, 3 ~ A relatively stable software system can be established in six months. 2. inadequate management because of the company's core staff's lack of professional technical knowledge and different business values, leading to a certain degree of deviation between the core staff and the development team's thinking, there is a relatively high level of difficulty in management. The lack of professional technical knowledge at the management layer will lead to technical staff failing to develop and implement technical standards. Each person shall follow their own ideas, coupled with the flow of personnel, in the end, the system will become a very difficult to maintain, and a hot potato. 3. The loss of staff is very high. For marketing teams, technical staff cannot be promoted in the professional field from here, which is not consistent with their career plans. Even if there is a high salary, it is difficult to retain technical staff for a long time. 4. The cost of self-built teams out of control seems to be much lower in the early stage, for example, only 1 ~ 2 employees, but later we will find that the project progress is slow due to issues such as technical level, qualifications and experience, and management model, or such personnel configuration cannot meet business needs, the cost will increase dramatically. If you do not increase your investment, the project can only make slow progress within the foreseeable time, leading to a situation where costs are out of control. Advantages of outsourcing teams: 1. technical assurance selects an experienced outsourcing team to implement the project. It not only can implement its own business ideas, but also obtain valuable experience from the outsourcing team in the professional field and industry, form the effect of 1 + 1> 2. The technical experience of the outsourcing team will ensure that the IT project of the startup company develops in a straight line, at least in the IT technology field. The maintainability, upgrade, and secondary development of IT projects are guaranteed. 2. Time guarantee the cooperation with the outsourcing team will be subject to contractual constraints and will be completed in accordance with the content requirements and time agreed in the contract. The "randomness" mentioned in the advantages and disadvantages of the self-built teams mentioned above also has positive and negative effects, because the arbitrary modification to the technical implementation may lead to repeated modification of the entire project during the development stage. With the contract, the entrepreneurial team must carefully consider it before entrusting it for implementation. The outsourcing team also converts the idea of the entrepreneurial team into specific contract terms, implementation. In this way, the concept is transformed into a specific transaction, so that the implementation of the project is controllable in time. At the same time, the entrepreneurial team can focus on implementing their own more professional fields. 3. Select outsourcing teams with controllable costs. All project expenditures, time, and surrounding expenses will be fully budgeted in the early stage. The entrepreneurial team can fully consider and choose. Comparison of charts with various implementation methods: